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Pick a challenge, fire up Vim, and show us what you got.

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$ gem install vimgolf
$ vimgolf setup
$ vimgolf put 5192f96ad8df110002000002

Words in parens

We should all ace this, right?

Start file

one two
three

End file

(one) (two)
(three)

View Diff

1,2c1,2
< one two
< three
---
> (one) (two)
> (three)

Solutions

The best way to learn is to practice. Below, you will find some of the solutions other golfers have entered. To unlock higher ranked solutions, submit your own entry which does as well or better than the solutions you can currently see - climb the ladder!

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3976 active golfers, 12991 entries

Leaderboard (lowest score wins):

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#3721 - JP / @jpbida

08/23/2014 at 04:23AM

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#3722 - Greg / @developergreg

09/05/2014 at 02:42PM

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#3723 - Willy / @Jifuka

03/15/2015 at 02:37AM

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#3724 - Evan Coleman / @edc1591

04/02/2015 at 07:55PM

24

#3725 - Maxime / @Maxime_VII

06/23/2015 at 11:18AM

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#3726 - Andreas Schlegel / @andischl

07/26/2015 at 12:10PM

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#3727 - Itamar Gal / @novicevimgolfer

08/16/2015 at 12:59AM

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#3728 - Jakob Schöttl / @jschoettl

12/20/2015 at 04:29AM

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#3729 - Vladimir Leskov / @vladimirlesk

12/21/2015 at 08:41PM

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#3730 - Max Del Giudice / @max_forest

04/18/2016 at 07:54AM

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#3731 - drumstix576 / @drumstix576

05/11/2016 at 03:05AM

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#3732 - arun mukundan / @manyids2

03/22/2017 at 01:23PM

24

#3733 - MrMatuski / @MrMatuski

03/28/2018 at 05:24PM

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#3734 - Danya Smith / @danyadsmith

08/01/2018 at 03:31AM

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#3735 - Alexander Covington / @ACov96

08/30/2018 at 05:53PM

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#3736 - Cj-bc_sd.sh🌸🐾🐟🔯💙💤@ソーダー / @Cj_bc_sd

10/19/2018 at 02:44AM

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#3737 - urandom / @ttyrandom

10/21/2018 at 06:35AM

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#3738 - Shashank G Hegde / @shashankghegde

10/23/2018 at 04:19PM

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#3739 - vimgolfer1234 / @vimgolfer12342

10/25/2018 at 12:42AM

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#3740 - Oren Koriat / @KoriatOren

12/05/2018 at 07:23PM

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#3741 - Bumazhka / @Bumazhka

02/11/2019 at 08:20AM

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#3742 - Elias Daler / @EliasDaler

03/12/2019 at 03:25PM

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#3743 - brian koh / @kxmbrian

03/26/2019 at 12:31AM

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#3744 - Noah Epstein / @NoahJEpstein

04/11/2019 at 02:49PM

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#3745 - Jess / @Jess74311450

06/13/2019 at 03:04PM

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#3746 - Vim Golfer / @VimGolfer6

07/14/2019 at 02:57PM

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#3747 - Andy Gnias / @GniTheSciGuy

11/28/2019 at 12:10AM

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#3748 - Sjoerd Thijsse / @SjoerdThijsse

12/23/2019 at 11:16PM

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#3749 - David Cherednik / @david_cherednik

05/23/2020 at 12:23PM

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#3750 - Jacob Shomstein / @jshoms

06/23/2020 at 01:50AM